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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] Although one wonders why Kirk didn't just beam the Klingons over, and have a transporter "accident". It would have saved blowing up the ship. The crew could have still beamed over and knocked out Maltz in manly fashion. [QUOTE] Civilians apparently had publicly available site-to-site transporters available in the 2340's. I remember one DS9 episode (probably "Homefront") where Joseph Sisko mentions a family moving into a new house... and they were beaming in their furniture. [/QUOTE]Hmm. This might be a difference scene, but I remember the conversation going that, for his first few weeks at Starfleet Academy, Sisko used to beam home for dinner every night (ie, from San Fransico to New Orleans). I'm sure old man Joe makes a comment about him using up a years worth of transporter credits in a month, or something. Perhaps it's hazardous to have large numbers of people being across a planet at once. Actually, thinking about it, wouldn't they have to get beamed upwards (to an orbiting platform), and then back down? Sort of like Satellite TV today? I doubt that they are beamed through the planet. So, anyway, having lots of people constantly being transported all around a planet is dangerous. Perhaps lots of bad energy is created, or maybe more people want to transport than they have room to handle. So they have transporter credits. Another currency item in the non-currency Federation. Woo. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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